With the imaginary vocabulary
of "clean coal," too many Democrats and Republicans, as well as a
surprising number of environmentalists, have forgotten the dirty
realities of extracting coal from the earth.

Pummeled by warnings that
global warming is triggering the apocalypse, Americans have fallen for
the ruse of futuristic science that is clean coal. And in the meantime,
swaths of the country are being destroyed before our eyes.